Industrially processed food is designed to be addictive. But what exactly is it doing to our bodies?

Chris van Tulleken

· Jul 24, 2024 · 01:30 pm

How alcohol consumption can affect the brain well before a diagnosis of addiction

Nikki Crowley, The Conversation

· May 19, 2024 · 10:00 pm

Chandler Bing overshadows Matthew Perry’s other legacy – his long, painful struggle with addiction

Maitreyi Misra

· Nov 01, 2023 · 07:30 am

What does ‘borderline alcoholic’ mean and is it a real thing?

Nicole Lee, The Conversation

· Oct 24, 2023 · 10:00 pm

Opioid addiction is ravaging Kashmir’s young

Safwat Zargar

· Jul 25, 2023 · 06:30 am

Why do some people get addicted and others do not? A psychiatrist tackles the question in a new book

Anirudh Kala

· Mar 27, 2023 · 11:30 am

Online gambling ads need to be regulated. The European Union is showing how to do it

Raffaello Rossi, The Conversation Agnes Nairn, The Conversation Ben Ford, The Conversation Jamie Wheaton, The Conversation

· Feb 18, 2023 · 11:30 pm

By limiting children’s gaming time to just three hours, China won’t be able to curb addiction

Joanne Orlando, The Conversation

· Sep 05, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How misplaced confidence, shaming, and peer pressure are making teenagers behave riskily online

Jyotsna Mohan Bhargava

· Sep 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Can your brain activity affect your alcohol consumption? This study might hold the answer

Cody A. Siciliano, The Conversation

· Nov 27, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The silent epidemic: An opioid crisis is sweeping Africa and West Asia

Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt, Mosaic.com

· Jul 27, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Are shishas harder to quit than cigarettes?

Kamran Siddiqi, The Conversation

· Sep 11, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Watch: In Panipat, a petrol thief turns out to be a monkey addicted to drinking fuel

Scroll Staff

· Nov 11, 2017 · 10:00 am

Watch: Zebrafish get addicted to drugs just like humans and can help researchers work on remedies

Scroll Staff

· Sep 03, 2017 · 01:00 pm

Watch: Do you think you’re not an addict? This vivid animation will prove you wrong

Scroll Staff

· Sep 02, 2017 · 10:00 am

Indians working in exploitative conditions on Italian farms are using opium to numb the pain

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jul 21, 2017 · 08:30 pm

This teen was addicted to cola. Watch what happened when he stopped

Scroll Staff

· May 20, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Watch: Checking your social media obsessively is a biological impulse, says this theory

Scroll Staff

· Nov 30, 2016 · 04:00 pm

Lab notes: Marijuana could help treat substance abuse, some mental health disorders

Scroll Staff

· Nov 19, 2016 · 05:45 am

Smoking dead scorpions is the latest addiction in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Izhar Ullah

· Apr 28, 2016 · 08:30 pm